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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

"Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help."

This was some high drama for a while today. My wife, and mother of my children, was really upset about the notion of a six year old boy trapped in a UFO balloon. I quickly assured her that would never happen in my yard. A.) I doubt I would possess a simulated UFO toy, B.) if it presented even the most remote danger to my kids, it would not be left attended/untethered.
(PS Who in their right mind own this, leaves a gas filled balloon object unattended in their yard. ?)

This was of course before the Wife Swap stuff came out. Once I heard of that, the cynic in me suspected the drama and the Reality Show was more than a mere coincidence.

These parents are seriously fucked up. But... they will end up with their own reality-show out of this, mark it down.

Fucked up attention grabbing pimp parents put their little darlings up to these stunts to get attention and money. Their history of being on a reality show and the punky vulgar rap video show that this is just a pattern of narcissistic behavior that these parents are setting for the soon to be little brats.

I just had about an hour conversation with the Pastor from Goodrich, MI, who participated in Wife Swap. HIs wife went to live with an Atheist Radio Talk Show Host in Georgia. He was unpleased with the UFO stunt. He also was amazed at the amount of editing utilized to create a "Reality" show.